WHAT A HEEL: The 25-Hour Day
Toledo attorney Kristin Ann Stahlbush has been suspended for two years by the OH Supreme Court for inflating billable hours for her work as a court-appointed attorney in the juvenile and general division courts in Lucas County, billing more than 24 hours on at least three days and more than 20 hours a day on five other days. Legal Profession Blog reports:
In all, [she] invoiced the county for a total of 3,451 billable hours for work allegedly performed during [2006], a number that would require her to have worked almost 10 hours per day on all 365 days of the year.
The court brushed off Stahlbush’s explanation of “sloppy record-keeping” and found her fee requests “simply incredible” because she failed to keep adequate records of the hours she worked, submitted fee requests that “deceptively inflated” the hours she workked, and on some instances “merely guessed at the time she had spent on a case.”
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